Biden bats down attempts to get him to stand aside

Even amid inner Democratic turmoil over his capability to stay in office, President Joe Biden refuses to step down.

In terms of proving he is too diminished to run, Cockburn is not sure what more evidence the Democratic Party needs. Biden mumbled through his Complex news interview with Speedy Morman on Friday. A few people in the comments on the interview said they had to turn on subtitles to understand him.

Biden also said, “In 2020 when Barack asked me to vice president…” Cockburn can forgive the guy for making a simple mistake, having been Barack Obama’s VP from 2009-2017. And yet with repeated evidence of memory mix-ups — not pertaining to normal, everyday mistakes, but to serious questions of mental acuity — each infraction is increasingly concerning.

On Monday, Biden defensively refocused on the the unifying factor of the Democratic Party: Trump is a danger to society. In his interview with NBC’s News anchor Lester Holt, Holt addressed Biden’s phone call last week where he said, “It’s time to put Trump in the bull’s eye.” Biden responded with: “It was — it was a mistake to use the word… I meant to focus on him.”

Biden also addressed many questions about his age, including Holt’s question about whether he had watched the debate. After admitting that he had not, Biden said: “I had a bad, bad night. I wasn’t feeling well at all. And — and I had been — without making — I screwed up.” This colorful cover-up is old news to Cockburn.

It seems with each new revelation about Biden’s decline, he is more determined to run for another four years. As Biden will “1,000 percent” — as he told Speedy — be running for re-election, there are only tenuous scenarios in which he would not be the Democratic nominee. When the time comes to select a nominee, delegates could technically vote against the candidate they are pledged to support. But Cockburn considers this highly unlikely, as the candidate has the right to review and make changes to their slate of delegates in each state.

Because of an election law in Ohio, Biden will actually be nominated over a virtual vote in late July, which makes things messy, but even more likely for Biden to maintain delegate loyalty. Cockburn wants the Zoom link.

President Biden put it best in his interview with Speedy: “We will 1,000 percent — in your words — see you on the ballot this November?” Morman asked. “Unless I get hit by a train, yeah,” Biden responded.